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Scrambled to protect an alleged domestic abuser. the white house pushing back tonight, as a matter of fact. an official saying that porter misled everyone in the west wing. plus president trump approved the release of a democratic rebuttal to the controversial nunes memo? the white house hinting he will providing there is no threat to national security. i'll talk to a democrat who is a member of the house intelligence committee. what we have got a lot of ground to cover. we'll bring in cnn's gloria borger, white house correspondent jim acosta, matt lewis, a commentator, as well. this story, gl...

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Allegations in march of last year. kelly said more information was transmitted in june. last november the fbi sent over its report but it was still a work in progress at that time. he first learned of the allegations on the afternoon of february 6th. kelly said porter denied it. he then saw the pictures. he again confronted porter who then offered his resignation. let's bring in the editor of halftime report, chris stirewalt. there's a tweet from "the washington post." covering a story from the beginning. said, okay, if rob porter resigned immediately tuesday, as kelly said, why did white hous...

And the problem i think, kelly has grown to like porter. he's dependent on him. he's the sort of staff secretary that makes the trains run on time. they had each other's back. they trusted each other. and he was acting more like a deputy chief of staff in many ways than just the staff secretary. and so i think you put all of this together, and it becomes this kind of situation where it makes you wonder in fact how long the chief of staff can survive this if the president is so upset about this. >> especially reportedly saying, giving him advice not to resign, saying that he could weather this....

Saying? >> it really is, don. one of the things that caught our eye earlier today was why john kelly would even put out a statement as it was being announced that rob porter was resigning with these very serious allegations facing him. and, you know, that statement from john kelly that came out as these allegations were coming forward was pretty glowing. and it's sort of odd, a senior white house official told us this evening, don, one of the reasons they were putting out these glowing statements not only from john kelly but from white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is that those...